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Common Cooking Mistakes #10: Over-Beating Batter

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This is common cooking mistakes, the short version of Cooking
With Bruce and Mark that comes out every Tuesday. Today, we're
going to help you improve your baking game. Your cakes will be more
tender. They will be lighter. And they will be more delicious. The
answer is as simple as don't beat the flour into the batter for
very long. The longer you do, the more gluten you develop and the
tougher your cake gets. Listen in and well explain the perfect way
to make light and tender cakes every time.

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Join Bruce Weinstein, the chef, and Mark Scarbrough, the writer, as they work their way through recipes and culinary myths. Once a week, they'll cook through a recipe in real time--complete with all the travails that could bring to this long-married couple. What's more, once a week they'll gleefully disabuse you of the greatest cooking mistakes they've seen in their years teaching classes, distilled into short, funny episodes. Twice a week at the same price! (Zero dollars.) You can't beat that. Plus, you'll laugh. Promise.